Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-04
HOW THE FAMILY BROKE UP
Woes of the Tigress Celeste a
Lincoln Park,

The tigress Celeste, which at pres
ent occupies apartments in Lincoln
Park, is the mother of Sarah Bern
hardt's tiger cub Tigrette. Tigrette is
now four months old, and is an inter-
esting and precocious child. 1t could
not be we'll otherwise, as the divine
Sarah is just the woman to bring up a
tiger cub in the way it should go, and
she has good material to work on,
for Tigrette's parents are of good
Bengalese stock, and little Tigrette
is their first-born son, their pride and
Joy. Circumstances have separated
Celeste and her leige lord, yclept Ra-
jah, the lady tiger accepting an advan-
tageous engagement with an Ameri-
can circus, while the gentleman tiger
took the position of first walking gen.
tleman in the tigers cage at the Lon
don 600" The lives of these show
folks are full of vicissitudes, and Ra-
jah and Celeste have had neither
home nor domestic happiness since
the twain entered public life. Now,
there is every probability that their
son and heir, Tigrette, will also be-
come a professional, as the youth
has fallen into the hands of cele-
brated Thespian. 1t is pity, for when
Raiah and Celeste parted at Bombay
the tiger papa in bidding farewell to
to the wife of his bosom, purred: Gre
member mia cara (Rajah' 3 keeper was
an Italian), remember that l do not
want our little son to 60 on the stage.
This nomadic life is something that l
abominate, and hope sometime that
you and l may earn a competence, kill
circus hand or to, escape and go
back to our cozy villa in the jungle
near Benares." And the affectionate
pair blinked large tears as they bade
each other adieu.
Now the family is all broken up.
Celeste and her infant went to Rio
Janeiro for their health. Rajah was
called to London on business. When
they arrived at the Brazilian metrop-
oils Sarah Bernhardt was in the midst
| of a successful engagement. One
night the emperor was in the box, and
the leading lady of the Bernhardt col
lection of artists received some ap-
plause. After the act the divine Sarah
attacked the offending actress
and beat her with all the
emotional order of her fervid
Semitic nature. Next day she visited
the menagerie. and, being in tiger
ish frame of mind, she struck up an
acquaintance with Celeste, a stranger
| in the place, and glad to receive u
kind word from an easily recognizable
affinity. Everyday calls ripened the
fruit of friendship from the blossom
of acquaintance, and the intimacy
ended in Sarah's proposition that she
should adopt little Tigrette.
"Give me the child" she said. 81
will bring him up as if he were my
own son. He and Maurice shall be
lplayfellows he shall want for moth
ling. will give him part in 'Theo-
DORA and he shall have fresh waiter
! every day to cut his teeth on" Celeste
sighed and blinked out several tears,
but she realized that it was for her
darling's good. and she purred acqui-
esce. So, while Celeste poses lazily
before the gaping idlers that gather
about her barred parlor, in Lincoln
Park, little Tigrette frisks about the
Bernhardt's boudoir in the Boulevard
Aaussmann, and perhaps curls him
self to sleep upon rugs made OF the
coats OF his ancestors. 1t is sad
downfall of distinguished house,
Rajah is in London, gazed at by the
vulgar mob, who test his carnivorous
palate with gingerbread, and jabber al
him in cockney patois. Tigrette is
is becoming dissolute young cub,
and is going to the dogs. Sarah Bern.
hardt is bad hand to bring up chill.
dren. Tigrette drinks absinthe and
listens while his adopted mamma
reads Zola to her coterie ol
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